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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Silhouette »

jki275 wrote: post #278
Silhouette wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't just about a convenient shell, though, is it? The state-of-the-art in compiler and other tool development in a lot of languages is hosted on UNIXy platforms. Many of the developers are there. Much of the attention and research and new work is focused there. Many of the tools for hosting online applications as a server are there. Windows simply isn't the dominant platform for most of this kind of work, and…

Are you unfamiliar with MSVC and Visual Studio?

No, I used them professionally for years, and still do for Windows development. What's your point?

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Silhouette »

jki275 wrote: post #277
Silhouette wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you have those editions, though, which typically no small business or independent professional does (nor home users, obviously). Windows 10 Enterprise is, as far as I can see, essentially a different OS to Windows 10 Pro and the lower editions, presumably because Microsoft knows very well that its big corporate customers wouldn't stand for the kind of behaviour it's trying to inflict on everyone else but the…

If you are running Windows 10 home for professional use, you’re at best being negligent. I run win 10 pro, just as I ran win7 pro before, for home use. A small business has no excuse to do otherwise.

You missed my point. Windows 7 Pro made sense in that market. Windows 10 Pro does not. You are literally relying on a system where you cannot maintain both proper control of your own resources and good support for things like security and compatibility updates.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Krssst »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #42

If at all possible, use Windows 10 LTSC/LTSB. LTSC was exactly what I wanted from a Windows OS. No Windows Store, no Candy Crush, and—most importantly by far—only security updates. It's the Debian model. Your OS stays secure, but the software will never change in a user visible way, unless/until you specifically choose to install a new LTSC release, which comes out around once every two years. It's perfect.

Windows Server 2019 is quite nice as a no-bullshit OS and can be bought for $350 on Amazon, but it has its own set of issues (compatibility, post-setup configuration to make it into a desktop OS, drivers).

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by makecheck »

I see a few comments trying to forgive Windows 10 “now” because certain things aren’t true “anymore” or lousy features can technically be turned off, etc. but those excuses do not hold up:

- The initial Windows 10 launch and forced-update scheme was completely botched. It directly caused major problems and cost users incredible amounts of money that Microsoft didn’t have to cover at all! (Examples: Business interruptions. Personal data losses and/or broken apps. Data-plan costs for downloading and re-downloading bloated updates over slow and/or expensive connections. Buying replacement hardware if things are broken and people don’t know what else to do.)

- Terrible defaults are inexcusable. Most people will not know that they should change things, or know how. Windows Updates can reverse settings anyway so even if you get your friends and family to fix an obnoxious setting once, it may not persist.

- This was produced by a massive company that had the resources to spend to do this properly. They should have spent those resources.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by fuu_dev »

"Most malware writers target Windows as the most popular desktop OS, so it has the biggest number of viruses among all other OSes (over five thousand new viruses daily)."

I thought the article had the aim to showcase solvable issues.

Yet it seems to more often just point out the same issue (e.g. privacy),

minor issues(inconsistency in legacy apps)

and even suggest harmful practices (disable security software, never upgrade...).

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by franga2000 »

brianpgordon wrote: post #84

I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA: 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion. I assume that's what they mean by "keyboard scanning and voice recording" because I don't think there's anything else like that in the OS. It is possible…

In regards to no. 3: I recently set up a new Win 10 laptop and was super impressed by the automagical driver installation.

A few days later I went on a work trip to somewhere where internet connectivity is a luxury and discovered basically all of the drivers were crap. Intel iGPU drivers didn't support QuickSync, trackpad scrolling worked in only half of my applications, the NVIDIA GPU was burning battery on idle and instead of even just using it in standard HID mode, it made my MX Master mouse switch over control of advanced features to the software, while not actually installing said software and opting to rather pop up a big ugly green dialog every 5 mintues, prompting me to install Logitech's garbage software utility.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by jki275 »

Silhouette wrote: post #283
jki275 wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are running Windows 10 home for professional use, you’re at best being negligent. I run win 10 pro, just as I ran win7 pro before, for home use. A small business has no excuse to do otherwise.

You missed my point. Windows 7 Pro made sense in that market. Windows 10 Pro does not. You are literally relying on a system where you cannot maintain both proper control of your own resources and good support for things like security and compatibility updates.

You can do exactly that with Windows 10 Pro.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by jki275 »

Silhouette wrote: post #281
jki275 wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you unfamiliar with MSVC and Visual Studio?

No, I used them professionally for years, and still do for Windows development. What's your point?

Your comment makes it seems as though people don't develop software on Windows.

That's a fairly normal thing that happens quite a great deal, and it's arguably the best software development experience because of Visual Studio.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Fjolsvith »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #276

Windows had the best GUI and kernel in the 2000/XP/Classic timeframe. God it sucked hard in many little areas though. BUT, they've been knocking things out in the last few years. Windows is getting tolerable again: - Better security - Windows Terminal - ExFat specs - Dark theme Too bad I'll never use it with telemetry and cortana etc. :-/

> - Dark theme

Worst thing to happen was their elimination of color customization of the user interface in Windows 10.

I don't know why Microsoft had to eliminate the viewing ease of their ENTIRE user base.

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